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Quotes by Author
"There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation of some matters which end up in a ditch of rejection."
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"To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories. And humans loved stories, because once you'd turned things into stories, you could change the stories."
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"I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born. Detesting both, I choose neither; but since I must on occasion either dream or act, I mix the two things together."
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"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."
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"There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?"
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"Life is a service. Serve in the grace of strength within thy soul."
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"Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence."
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"Another vindication I had is the fact that I believed the Christian message and the gospel of the kingdom is good enough to fix the world's problems."
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"It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race."
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"What you get by achieving your goals is as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
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"Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts."
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"Under the glass porte-cochA re of a theatre Amory stood, watching the first great drops of rain splatter down and flatten to dark stains on the sidewalk. The air became grey and opalescent; a solitary light suddenly outlined a window over the way; then another light; then a hundred more danced and glimmered into vision. Under his feet a thick, iron-studded skylight turned yellow; in the street the lamps of the taxicabs sent out glistening sheens along the already black pavement. The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night."
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"Hardware works best when it matters the least."
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"One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself."
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"The only thing God is afraid of is a strong-willed human!"
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"The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times."
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"It is good to have wealth. It is great to leave in comfort. It is awesome to obtain possessions but, don't be too eager for material possessions for the same material possessions that bring joy are the same possessions that bring sorrow and pain and also leave a big had I know on our minds."
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"I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world."
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"Let's just go in and enjoy ourselves,' Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family had silently reviewed the menu-actually of the prices not the courses-outside a restaurant on our first and only visit to Paris. I knew at once that the odds against enjoyment had shortened (or is it lengthened? I never remember)."
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"I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Allow me to inform you, though, that when you sit in a room with a set of other finalists, and kindly people bring a huge transparent bag of poison and plug it into your arm, and you either read or don't read a book while the venom sack gradually empties itself into your system, the image of the ardent solider is the very last one that will occur to you. You feel swamped with passivity and impotence: dissolving in powerlessness like a sugar lump in water."
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"There is something mysterious yet definitely accessible to us all under the agitated waves of difficulty that allows us to feel and flow along a more comprehensive intuitive and spiritual understanding of true meaning. And to find solace, accepting serenity and even beauty within it."
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"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."
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"Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that cause things to happen."
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"Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression."
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"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."
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"Success can't be achieved without personal development and constantly improving yourself."
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"You must hiss at people who intend to undermine your individuality with their false pride and intellectual stupidity. You must frighten them away, lest they should do you harm. Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone."
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"A "brand" identifies how you are unique and different. It is an attention-getter to help you stack up against your competitors. It also shares with us what we can expect by doing business with you."
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"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
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"Self esteem determines the height of your achievement."
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"Setting our living standards and expectations based on the status of others is like wishing that apples were onions."
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"You don't have to spend a lot of money to feel like a million. A good night's sleep, a quiet walk by the river or a hug from a favorite person will do the trick."
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